'''''Last Year at Marienbad''''' is a Surrealist 1961 French film directed by Alain Resnais.

At a European chateau resort for the rich, a man runs into a woman whom he claims to have met before, specifically [[TitleDrop last year at the resort town Marienbad]]. She repeatedly denies this, although it is unclear if she is lying or not. Further complicating things is a second man (who may or may not be the woman's husband) who keeps finding ways to demean the first, particularly during repeated games of Nim.

[[MindScrew At least, that seems to be the plot.]]

It is worth noting that the movie is heavily self-referential: if you pay attention, a lot of what seems to come out of nowhere has either been subtly set up earlier, or ties into something later. It's extremely complex, and has a LoveItOrHateIt reputation even among art film fans.----!!Tropes Associated With This Movie

* AlienGeometries: Resnais shot the film in several different European castles, then edited it together in such a way as to create a disorienting, unclear sense of the scale and structure of the castle.* TheBeautifulElite: The movie takes place at a castle resort for the extremely wealthy, what else did you expect?* BigFancyHouse* ChekhovsArmoury: Nearly every single thing in the movie refers back to something else.* CostumePorn: And lots of it. Tends to happen when one of your costumers is Coco Chanel.* FluffyFashionFeathers* GameOfNim: TropeMaker.* LeFilmArtistique* MindScrew: And ''how''.* NoNameGiven: None of the main characters are given names. In the script, the woman is "A", the first man is "X" and the second is "M".* RapeDiscretionShot: It seems to happen, maybe... it's not very clear. The man even tries to correct himself when he thinks about it.* SharpDressedMan: Every last one of the men.* ShoutOut: ** At about the 13 minute mark you can see a stairwell where a cut-out of Creator/AlfredHitchcock is barely visible. ** One scene of Delphine Seyrig lounging on the bed is a hommage to ''Gilda'', using similar lighting and costume.* SceneryPorn: The castle setting is as much a character as the actors, with lots of tracking and wide shots to take it all in.